The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-05-14
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS,
Startling Statements Made by Professor
Nap. williams, of Sandy Musb.

the school-house in the Settlement, was
one of the most successful in the his
tory of the society
The objects of the club are, briefly,
to promote and foster more earnest
and unflagging zeal for learning, and
to bring about a higher srandard of
photography in the better circles of
Sandy Mush Township.
The school-teacher from Lower HON.
my, Mr.. Napoleon Williams, was pres
ent and read paper on prehistoric
Man" There is only room here for
few excerpts from this paper, all of
which is replete with thought and Pale
Olithic terms that it would take smart
man two weeks to think of.
at has been less than a century,"
said Mr.. Williams, snuffing the candle
with his fingers and wiping off the smut
on his bootleg, ''since scientists began
to prowl around the dark corners of
creation and dig up the drift and rum
mage the deep recesses of loud-smelling
caves for the evidences of a prehis-
toric race.
I'm 1910, Dr. Goldfuss first began his
researches in the Cave of Gailenreuth,
in Barasia. Here he found the bones
Of the Cave Bear, and. as it had been
many centuries since the death of the
Cave Bear, he felt perfectly safe in con-
tinuing his researches.
HE also discovered, at this time, the
bones of other extinct animals, animals,
if possible, extincter than the Cave
Bear. Arguing at once that nature
would not place the bear upon the face
of planet where there were no men
to prevaricate in the matter of bear
astoriesA DR.. Goldfuss easily arrived at
the conclusion that this earth was once
peopled with Prehistoric Men and
Womeni
"These theories led to results finally,
and before many years scientists had
found what they called Drift Men.
Drift Men are the oldest people we
known any thing of. When found, the
remains were said to be in bad state
of preservation. After viewing them
for some time, it was decided that de-
ceased came to his death from unknown
causes.
Digging little deeper through the
heavy deposit of breccia and Drift Men,
the scientific groper came upon traces
of Cave Men. At first only implements
of stone were found. These consisted
of spur heads Clipped out of flint, to-
gether with stab knives, harpoons, pins,
avis and needles made of bone, and
small implement, of unknown material
and of a sonorous sound, supposed to be
q chestnut bell.
DAY after day these scientists stood
knee deep in the prehistoric mud and
silt, knocking out their brains against
the stalactities, and by the light of
splitting, suffering torch, overhauling
the bowels of the earth for the dust of
their departed relatives.
Through alternate layers of earth,
'stalagmite, charred bones, dust cob
webs, dried tobacco guilds, election re-
turns, broken stalactites, hollow peach
cans, mould, flint and bone shirt studs
that had rolled under the bureau mil
lions of years before Christopher Co.
lumbus discovered America, there to
be forgotten by their owners, these
patient men toiled on in search of men
who had no doubt been dead thousands
of years before Pharaoh cut his front
teeth.
mo clothing of the Cave Men or
women has been exhumed, and it is
found that they did not have any. But
it is too late to assist them at this time.
Their sufferings are over, and both the
Cave Men and the Drift Men are past
our help.
GAS needles have been found how
ever, coeval and co-extensive with the
Cave Man, it has been argued that they
must have been used in the preparation
of clothing, though this is far off from
clear, as the needles may have
been used by the women simply
to drop on the floor of the cave so
that the Cave Man might step on them
in the dark.
''The Cave Bear, according to rude
outlines which we find traced or ncised
on slate by the Cave Men, was a
Notwithstanding brute, with broad
smile. He looks like an animal that
would appreciate any thing in the line
of a little cave child.
at required a good deal of moral
courage, fellow citizens of Sandy Mush,
to climb Cave Bear and kill him with
a Paleolithic dornick
1--WE are prone to speak of the Cave
Man as inferior in strength and courage
but we forget that he had to fight for
his cave, for his wife, for his life, for
his food and for his sacred honor, and
even then, the chances are that his vote
was not counted half the time.
eve are apt to say that the Drift
Man and the Cave Man have failed to
contribute any thing to history in the
way of art or literature that is worthy
of consideration, and that, therefore.
they We're inferior as men and deficient
in courage; but who among us would
care to catch full-hedged mammoth by
the tail and fiOht him tn a finish with